I’m doing a one day roundtrip from New Jersey to Boston to briefly visit someone for an hour or two. The phone may be "the next best thing to being there" as the ad used to say but it remains a distant second. Sometimes you just NEED to see someone in the flesh.
I figured the easiest mode of travel was the train so here I am two hours into the first leg of my journey. My AMTRAK ticket includes coffee and a free paper which is perfect since my schedule rarely permits me to have a quiet Sunday morning to linger over a cup of java and the Times.
So did I get my copy? Nope.
I’ve become so used to reading the news via the NY Times’ mobile web site that I find it easier to hold the iPhone in landscape and scroll through the news with one finger than to fuss with folding an oversized paper this way and that and getting covered in ink in the process.
A tech-savvy friend recently commented to me that as much as he makes use of RSS feeds and on-line versions of "old-school media" nothing quite compares to holding a "real" paper for him. A year ago I probably would have agreed with him. No longer…
Tags: iPhone, NY Times mobile, RSS feeds
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